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Wow that's a really impressive and well put together demo and overview. Really easy to follow and I'm glad I went through the whole tour. Question - you mentioned optimizations but…

Thanks for sharing. Link: http://www.nasdaq.com/markets/ipos/filing.ashx?filingid=9443...

This reminds me of the all-too-true joke. Question: How do you know somebody has an MBA? Answer: They tell you. Full disclosure... I have an MBA!

Loved the history. Don't imagine that traders will ever stop trying to get an advantage. I find it fascinating that even the postmaster thought an informational edge was unfair. Im…

To be clear, the price of energy goes negative because of government subsidies. For example, a wind plant with a $30/MWH subsidy can afford to run at a price of -$30. Similarly, if…

Can someone please explain how this works? Is the younger Mrs. B is paying them to remove everything? Why? Do they just throw it all away?

This is one of the the few cases where Clayton Christenson's insights on disruption apply. Insieme was founded on the premise of trying to disrupt Cisco's existing business because…

Same here... west LA too. UberX usually has more cars available and the Lyft ones are usually older models.

By the same logic the author shouldn't tweet for free either.

While I was reading about the daily emails, I couldn't help but think that the slow web was just marketing speak for their chosen technical infrastructure. Ie. they run a midnight …

While I agree with the recommendations of the article, I wish it would cover some of the history of US geo-engineering too. I wonder what concerns were raised when they filled in B…

This warmed my heart. And thinking about it from a business perspective, not everybody needs to own their own self-driving car. Ie. it can self-drive itself home for use by the nex…

I've seen this argument in many forms. It generally goes: Robots will never be able to do [insert activity here] as well as humans for [insert reason here]. I rather think that thi…

This confused me, but I think it's because annual subscription revenue was recognized in the month of the payment.

what exactly happened to ICQ? i haven't used it in years and years

Agreed, same story near UCLA

i remember back in college my friends would call them shitobas because they broke so often

I hate hate hate D&B. so scammy and spammy and worthless. I think their corporate structure reflects the scam... One company issues the DUNS # but another is the telemarketing spam…

Tried to install this in Firefox and got confused by the Chrome site I was brought to... I guess this is Chrome only?